Sunday, 1 February 2009

Luxury maintenance gazebo

Theres a few new happenings this week, the first of which was the arrival of a new extra large luxury maintenance gazebo (a tent). It's not one of the pop up types as i couldn't find one of those in the size required, so i made use of the sale that was on at Gala Tents and bought a heavy duty 4m x4m marquee. We'll do away with the trailer tents small awning and use this one instead, it means the whole bike including wheely bars will fit in and there should be lots of room to work on the bike too. It also means no one should be in danger of tripping over the sticky out wheely bars in the middle of the night either.
The second notable event is the arrival ... or rather the collection of the finished gearbox. I'll need to do a few tweaks before it gets fitted however, as i forgot to take the lower crank case to have the shift fork mod done. It's no hassle to do it myself but it just won't be such neat job. Plus in order to make shift shaft removal easier I'll drill and tap a couple of holes into the left hand side of the casing where the shaft ends are to enable a bent shaft to be tapped out from that side with a small bar. The holes can simply be blanked up with a grub screw.

I picked up a bunch of small parts that were also required, such as new camchain and gudgeon pin circlips, and rather splendidly - some exhaust spigots for the eBay special exhaust.

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